[Rd] Re: [R] R on gentoo amd64 (gcc 3.3.3) is unstable --- no!

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Diman Todorov wrote:

> My appologies, this estimation is about right,
> I spent last week at COMPSTAT in prague and didn't follow the list 
> closely.
> Inspite of this fact I believe my posting is not entirely out of date.

Have you actually looked at the current R-devel, which no longer allows
f2c to be used on 64-bit platforms?

> 
> 
> regards
> Diman Todorov
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> You are 8 days behind the times -- take a look at the current R-devel.
> 
> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Diman Todorov wrote:
> 
>  > Dear Dirk,
>  > I have had the exactly same problem like Ivo and his solution worked 
> for me.
>  > Hence the USE=f77 flag is NOT a typo but a Gentoo quirk.
>  > As far as modifying the configure script is concerned, I believe that 
> it is certainly
>  > possible to perform said check (if 'f77 --version == f2c' then die)
>  > only on x86_64 platforms.
>  > And I'd argue it is f2c's fault. AMD64 linux distros have been known 
> to have troubles of this sort
>  > especially as far as compilers are concerned.
>  >
>  >
>  > regards
>  > Diman Todorov
>  >
>  > On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 06:59:14AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>  > >
>  > > peter/brian:  thank you for the help.  i can now report that gentoo
>  > > amd64 can compile R just fine, too; it requires the f77 USE flag 
> and a
>  >
>  > (Err, no such thing exists: either g77, f2c or the fort77 wrapper for 
> f2c.)
>  >
>  > > gcc compiler rebuild first, though.  I also went to gcc 3.4.1.  my
>  > > segfault troubles earlier were caused by my use of f2c.
>  > >
>  > > suggestion: would it be possible to add a code snippet  that tests
>  > > whether the user is trying to compile with f2c and if so, bombs the
>  > > installation?  (if "f77 --version == f2c" then die)  I know the
>  >
>  > Bad idea.
>  >
>  > My Debian configuration, driven from a single configuration, is used 
> on
>  > about a dozen different platforms. One of these, m68k, has a 
> continually
>  > been problematic with g77, which forces us to use f2c.
>  >
>  > And despite your fears, that is working swimmingly for R as well as 
> the by
>  > now 40 or so CRAN packages that are in the distro too, incl the ones 
> like
>  > VR, Hmisc/Design, tseries, ... that contain Fortran code.
>  >
>  > > problems are not R's fault, but it can percolate into R and it can
>  > > protect people like myself.
>  >
>  > I'd argue that it wasn't f2c's fault, but maybe an unlucky mix of 
> parts of
>  > your toolchain (gcc, binutils, libc, ...).
>  >
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